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Casualty Info
Home Town Taylor, TX
Last Address 413 W 7th St Taylor, TX
Casualty Date Jun 06, 1942
Cause KIA-Body Not Recovered
Reason Torpedoed
Location Pacific Ocean
Conflict World War II
Location of Interment Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial - Honolulu, Hawaii
USS Hammann (DD-412) - torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I-168 on 6 June 1942 at the Battle of Midway.
USS Hammann (DD-412), 1939-1942
USS Hammann, a 1620-ton Sims class destroyer built at Kearny, New Jersey, was commissioned in August 1939, under the command of Lieutenant Commander Arnold E. True. Her service over the next thirty months included active participation in 1941 "operations short of war" in the Atlantic. Transferred to the Pacific in January 1942, she took part in operations in the South Pacific in February-May 1942 including the Battle of Coral Sea. During the Battle of Midway in early June 1942, Hammann screened USS Yorktown (CV-5). While tied alongside Yorktown on the afternoon of 6 June 1942, assisting in her salvage, Hammann was torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-168 and sank in a few minutes. Casualties among her crew were very heavy.
